https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-case-against-fluoride
A short substack column but long enough to provide details, sauce, and suggestions, including how to filter flouride out of your water. The situation with flouride is similar to that with the "vaccines", as Kirsch describes:
Get your town to stop fluoridating the water. It’s poison. You will have to overcome the same disbelief you get when you tell people the COVID vaccines aren’t safe.
Change the law in your state to outlaw fluoridation. Like vaccines, the science is crystal clear when you look at it; but nobody wants to look at it. After we take down the COVID vaccines, people will hopefully be more receptive to looking at the risk-benefit here.
I've always been ambivalent about water fluoridation, but there is no doubt that topical fluoride is effective in reducing dental caries rates. Massively effective. Look up "silver diamine fluoride".
Let’s see the analysis separated out by economic status. Last i heard almost all the benefit from the analysis is in people with bad dental care. But why does fluoride reduce cavities? Its not a nutrient and its known to be extremely hazardous. If its topical then why is it being added into water? Ingestion is not topical.
Covid has really pushed me to question everything that has become so standard that there is no alternative and its heresy to question otherwise.
I've developed a very similar attitude. The point of my comment was to not throw out the baby with the bath water. Fluoridated water? Maybe bad. Minimal benefit for most people except children in low-income families. Good hygiene with fluoridated toothpaste seems to obviate most, if not all of the benefits of fluoridated water, without any of the negative sequelae.
I've just seen too many (rightfully) skeptical people go all-in, eliminate fluoridated toothpaste, and then their kids present with 12 large cavities at age 5. Then we're off to general anesthesia and a mouth full of stainless steel crowns. I'd bet that GA on a five year old has at least as big of an IQ effect as does fluoridated water
Anecdotal story, I have a five-year-old that has never had fluoridated water (well water) and has never used fluoridated toothpaste. We just got his teeth checked and they are perfect. He brushes once a day all by himself and has a normal diet, but we do restrict sweets to only one or two times a week.
However, my three-year-old has several cavities. We had to take a few long, morning car rides when she was 18-months-old and we would give her juice to settle her stomach. She'd fall asleep with the bottle in her mouth and it'd be hours before we'd get back home to brush her teeth. This only happened a handful of times, but it was enough to leave little stains on her front baby teeth. After we noticed the marks, we switched her to fluoridated toothpaste. Fast forward 18 months and she has 8 cavities total that had spread from the initial cavities of her front teeth. Now she has to go through the anesthesia to get crowns since she's supposed to have some of those baby teeth for several more years. I'm apprehensive of giving her anesthesia, but the possibility of infection and pain when the teeth rot away sounds worse.
Moral of the story: don't let your toddler fall asleep with a bottle of juice in their mouth! I wonder if switching to the fluoridated toothpaste really made much of a difference in preventing the spread of the cavities. I'll never know for sure. For now, I'm going to keep giving her the fluoridated toothpaste and keep letting my son use the non-fluoridated stuff since it's worked for him.
I stopped using fluoridated toothpaste in 2015. Been using a water filter for years to keep the drinking and cooking water as clean as possible. I haven't had a cavity since I stopped using that kind of toothpaste. Their is a toothpaste powder that my daughter uses on the grandkids, one of which had severe discoloration of the front teeth and was losing the enamel on her teeth. Turns out it was a gluten sensitivity that was causing her teeth problems. Anyway, I believe my daughter ordered it off Amazon. Here's the link. Hope it helps. https://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Harrys-Unscented-Remineralizing-Toothpaste/dp/B00H4HCIMU/ref=sr_1_11?crid=D1EJWOL3OLZS&keywords=tooth+powder+remineralizing&qid=1664674075&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI1LjI2IiwicXNhIjoiNC45MyIsInFzcCI6IjQuNjQifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=tooth+powder%2Caps%2C290&sr=8-11